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  • New glasses promise a solution to colour blindness

    11/23/2015 4:20:47 AM PST · by Daffynition · 25 replies
    CTVNews.ca ^ | November 22, 2015 | CTVNews.ca Staff
    About 10 per cent of the population is colour blind and simply can't perceive as many colours as those with normal vision. There has never been any way to correct the condtion but now, a U.S. company claims they have created glasses that can open up a world of colour to users. But some eye experts remain skeptical. Colour blindness, or colour vision deficiency, as doctors call it, is more than just a nuisance. Most with the condition can't distinguish red from green and have trouble with aspects of everyday life. They can't become pilots, firefighters, electricians, police officers or...
  • Colour blindness corrected by gene therapy - Treated monkeys can now see in technicolour.

    09/17/2009 2:01:52 PM PDT · by neverdem · 15 replies · 747+ views
    Nature News ^ | 16 September 2009 | Elie Dolgin
    Dalton, a squirrel monkey treated with gene therapy, enjoys his new colour sense.Neitz Laboratory Researchers have used gene therapy to restore colour vision in two adult monkeys that have been unable to distinguish between red and green hues since birth — raising the hope of curing colour blindness and other visual disorders in humans."This is a truly amazing study," says András Komáromy, a vision researcher and veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, who was not involved in the research. "If we can target gene expression specifically to cones [in humans] then this has a tremendous implication."About 1...